LaserAnnals.com is proud to announce its cooperation with the new free educational site, LaserLessons.info! This site offers ten basic educational documents on PBM as on Open Access option. Where applicable, more complex explanations are additionally linked to one of the more read more

Where’s the harm in hype? By Peter A. Jenkins I recently came across an article on the ‘Science-Based Medicine‘ website, and in it I found the following statement relating to the often-large disconnect between the evidence and the marketing claims in read more

PBM – PhotoBioModulation – watch out for it! By Jan Tunér Ever since the birth of “low level lasers” there has been no consensus about the vocabulary in this kind of medical intervention. MeSH terms of the National Library of read more

More Lies and Subterfuge from the World of Class IV Laser Therapy By Jan Tunér The US laser manufacturer LiteCure (a.k.a. Companion/Pegasus for veterinary version) belongs to a group of laser manufacturers that confuse customers and let consumers pay a high read more

What is a good laser therapy instrument? Some questions to consider before you choose a laser By Lars Hode and Jan Tunér (Adapted from “Laser Phototherapy – Clinical Practice and Scientific Background”. 2014. Prima Books) To choose a laser instrument read more

New studies but old knowledge – sing it out loud! By Jan Tunér My Danish colleague Per-Hugo Beck-Kristensen is one of the LLLT pioneers in dentistry, starting in the late ’80s. One thing that Per-Hugo realized very early was that read more

Pemphigus vulgaris and PBM – a new option By Jan Tunér Pemphigus vulgaris (PV) is an autoimmune disorder, making up about 80% of all pemphigus cases. The immune system produces antibodies against specific proteins in the skin and mucus membranes. read more

New and old books By Jan Tunér “Nothing new under the sun”, they say. And indeed, using light to heal is nothing new. But an effort to present light therapy in a scientific way is not very old, but older read more

The role of coherence in laser phototherapy By Tomas Hode, PhD Introduction The importance of coherence and laser speckles in LPT has been discussed over the last 30 years. Coherence [1] is often defined as a property of wave-like states read more

Statistics or be damned – about PBM and aphthous ulcers By Jan Tunér A few years ago I and my Cuban friends performed a clinical study on the effect of PBM on aphthous ulcers. The paper was submitted to a read more